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I'm looking for hardware / software so that I can convert my old cherished cassettes that I have and put them onto cd. Most of the tiltles I have were deleted in the 70's and are not available on CD.
Any ideas of where I can start?
Thanks in advance
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Hi
If you already have either Nero or Roxio these will do it.
Hope this helps
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Hi
If you already have either Nero or Roxio these will do it.
Hope this helps
Yes but you need to get the audio from the cassette first before you can record it to CD.
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Yes but you need to get the audio from the cassette first before you can record it to CD.
Yep your right, sorry
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You will need a CD Writer, a soundcard, a jack plug to stereo phono (possibly, depends on what outputs you have on the cassette deck) lead, and some recording software. This is Intel's favourite recording software..
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You will need a CD Writer, a soundcard, a jack plug to stereo phono (possibly, depends on what outputs you have on the cassette deck) lead, and some recording software. This is Intel's favourite recording software..
I have used this software in the past it's ok
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Is it as simple as head phone out put on a deck to the input on my sound card and then using the editing software?
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If you've got an old amplifier and tape player (separate though) you could take the output on the auxiliary and put it into the line in port of your computer.
Most decent audio recording software can record from line in, so you just set it recording from line in, play cassette and hopefully it all records correctly. Once on your PC you can then record it to cd.
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Yes, (or use line-out phono's) but make sure you use the line-in on the sound card, and not microphone input, and you'll need to adjust the volume out of the cassette desk , too low and you'll get background hiss, too high, and you will get clipping..
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Don't use headphone out, unless you have no other option, use a line out. Headphone out is likely to produce much worse results because the signal is amplified to drive headphones.
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What i do when converting cassettes to CD. Is.
If you have a dictaphone/hifi link a wire from the 'phones' out, and link it to your computers 'mic' in.
Go to volume control and see that microphone isn't muted, then when you play your tape you should hear it.
Then, in volume control go to Options, Properties, Recording, tick Microphone if not already done and set mic and recording points mid way and make sure Recording has "Mute all" unticked.
Now record with a WAV recorder, like sound recorder? Although i use Windows Movie Maker as this automatically compresses it so it isn't a huge file. And set your tape going.
You are ensured an interuption free, Tape to MP3 transfer, once thats done just burn them to CD!
Hope this helps!
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What i do when converting cassettes to CD. Is.
If you have a dictaphone/hifi link a wire from the 'phones' out, and link it to your computers 'mic' in.
I have to say using the mic in is not a good idea. It will work but the quality will suffer. Mic ins have cheap pre amps which boost the signal and add noise to the signal. Admitidly you would have to keep the mic level low because it will be boosting a much stronger line level signal from the hifi or even higher level headphone signal but the quality will still be worse and the chances of gettiong distortion far higher. Always choose a line input if you have one.
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I use a bit of software called Magix audio cleaning Lab, comes with the lead to connect to your PC and Audi output from the Hi-fi...
best bit is that it will remove tape hiss etc and boost the level for you on old tapes...top piece of software !!
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hi im sure this si a stupid question
but i am trying to record a cassette with recorderbut i can only get it to record for 60 sec's !!!
im sure there is an easy way to change this ... but i cant find it .... can any one help ???
also cmallaby how do u use movie maker to record cassetts
thanks in advance
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I've always used audiograbber to grab music from tape (or vinyl).
Its easy to use and more importantly, its free, the website is here
Hope that helps, its certainly enabled my father in law to put a lot of his audiobooks onto cd
Phil
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hi im sure this si a stupid question
but i am trying to record a cassette with recorderbut i can only get it to record for 60 sec's !!!
Windows sound recorder is not really much good for this sort of thing. There are fiddles to allow longer recording but you'l be far better off downloading something like Audacity.